COMIX BOOK COVER GALLERY...

Copyright relevant owner

No point getting bogged down with boring detail.  Suffice to say that COMIX BOOK was a 1970s attempt at an underground-style mag, the first three of its five issue run being published by MARVEL COMICS.  (The final two by KITCHEN SINK.)  Well, this post "does what it says on the tin", so here are those five covers, along with some bonus pics which you might not have seen before.  In fact, you may never even have seen all five covers before either, so aren't you glad you popped in?  (Okay, who's the wise-guy who said no?)

For  some pics of the contents of issue #1, click here.

Cover rough for #1

Alternative cover rough for #1 by Peter Poplaski

Rejected cover for #1 by Peter Poplaski

Rejected cover idea for #3 by William Stout

Rejected cover for #5

FINALLY! PART TWELVE Of FOOM COVER & IMAGE GALLERY...

Images copyright MARVEL COMICS & relevant owners

And now, at last, we reach journey's end, as Crivens features the final two issues of FOOM magazine, which, over the course of around five and a half years, managed to produce 22 pulse-pounding publications devoted to all things MARVEL.  It's hard to believe that it's been just over two years since the series began on this blog, but now we pull down the curtain and take our last bow as the audience rise to their feet and make their way towards the exits, hopefully satiated by the magnificent meal of Mighty Marvel Masterworks on which they've so fervently and ferociously feasted.  (And just try saying that with a mouthful of marbles.  On second thought, better not - you might choke, and I need all the readers I can get.)

Any reminiscences about any of the images on show?  Were you a FOOM fan, or did it manage to slip under your radar at the time?  Feel free to tell your fellow Criv-ites all about it in the comments section!  Incidentally, the back cover illustration of the final ish (22) was reused on The FANTASTIC FOUR Annual for 1980, issued near the end of 1979.  

Update: As a special bonus, below is the cover and a few interior images from a FOOM one-shot published in 2017, 44 years after the final issue of the original series.

BABE Of The DAY - LESLEY ANN WARREN (AGAIN)...

Here's lovely LESLEY ANN WARREN

stepping into a fight between the Invisible Man

and Susan Storm, holding them apart until they

both calm down.  Don't ask me why she's kitted

out like a butterfly - I have no idea.